Dear all,
If you sometimes use your mobile phone or table computer to access the discussion forum, then please read on. If not, then this post is not really of relevance to you.

As you probably know, we have created a mobile version of the forum 2.5 years ago. When accessing the forum from a smart phone or tablet computer, you should take this website:
m.forum.susana.org

We recently spent some time and money on some further improvements to this mobile version. What's new? The mobile version now also has these functionalities:

• A "top" and "bottom" button at the end of each post which allows jumping to the start or end of the thread (very useful for long threads).
• The option of seeing who else has "liked" a post (you need to be logged in to use the "I like this post" option and to see who else has liked the post)
• At the beginning and at the end of a thread you now have the option to select "Subscribe" or "Favourite" (when you are logged in)

Please use this opportunity to let us know if anything else has bothered you with the mobile version for a while? Now is your chance to suggest improvements, as we could see with Steffen what can be done.

Personally, I use the mobile version a lot on my smart phone and tablet for reading (but nearly never for writing). Nothing beats a good old keyboard for typing out a (lengthy) reply... But for reading, the mobile version is great, I think.

Here is what the mobile version looks like with my phone (just to inspire you to try it out if you are a smart phone user):







What are your experiences with using the mobile version? What should be improved?

Regards,
Elisabeth

P.S.
You can see here from our statistics report that the trend of using mobile devices when accessing the forum is going up quite steeply, particularly for mobile phones:

Dear all,

We have made further improvements to the mobile version of the forum (you can access it with this link: m.forum.susana.org). As part of these improvements, you can now access our interesting statistics page (which includes the user list) from the mobile version under the menu. See screenshot (you need to log in to be able to view the user list):



Some links that were not working properly before have now been fixed, for example a wrong link when accessing the desktop version from a tablet computer.

Furthermore, the mobile forum has now officially moved out of beta stage. Therefore, if your forum logo still says "(beta)", then you probably need to refresh your browser or empty cache.

We are really keen to hear from you about your user experiences when you use your smart phone or tablet computer to access the mobile version of the forum (m.forum.susana.org). Do you like it? Is there anything else that needs improvements?

When you use a tablet computer, like an iPad, do you prefer to use the desktop version or the mobile version?

Last but not least, we have had a closer look at the access statistics: As one would expect, the percentage of users who access the forum with a mobile device (mobile phone or tablet computer) are on the rise. Our prediction is that this will go to at least 20% within a year from now. That's why it is so important to give these users a good mobile forum experience.


(the red vertical line represents the launch of the mobile version of the forum)

Best regards,

Hector and Elisabeth

Hello everybody,

we have launched the mobile version of the Forum. Our tribute to the 21st century .
So we are encouraging you to use it by using this link while on your phone or tablet computer m.forum.susana.org

Please tell us your suggestions, comments or critic, by simply posting a reply to this post.
We are always happy to continue to do some fine tuning and take your suggestions for improvements on board.




Kind regards,
SuSanA secretariat.
[posted by Agazi Medhanie]